Silicon Mechanics Gives Back

Silicon Mechanics, Inc., announced this week that Wayne State
University (WSU) is the recipient of the company’s 3rd Annual Research
Cluster Grant. This includes donation of a complete high-performance
compute cluster from Silicon Mechanics and several of its partners.

Wayne State, located in midtown Detroit, which can always use some
good news, is one of the nation’s 50 largest public universities, with
annual research expenditures of nearly $260 million, and it is among
only 3.5% of US universities with the Carnegie Foundation’s highest
research classification. The addition of the Silicon Mechanics'
cluster to the WSU facility will provide a powerful and flexible new
research tool.

As a significant update to WSU’s current computing grid, the cluster
will be shared by a variety of the most computation-intensive research
groups on campus. The grant application was submitted jointly by two
interdisciplinary collaborative research teams, and includes both
computer scientists and domain scientists focusing on chemistry,
mathematics, physics and biology, along with cancer and biomedical
research.

Wayne State’s Vice President for Research, Hilary Ratner, Ph.D., said,
“We are thrilled to be a recipient of Silicon Mechanics' generous
grant program. Our research faculty are pushing the boundaries of
discovery, and this high performance computing equipment will help
accelerate innovative work across our campus."

Silicon Mechanics' Annual Research Cluster Grant Program awards a
complete HPC cluster to an educational or research institution through
a highly competitive grant process. This program enables SIlicon
Mechanics to support state-of-the-art computing in higher education
and cutting-edge research to help universities change the world--one
high-performance cluster at a time. Previous Cluster Grant recipients
include Tufts and St. Louis University.

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